Open source might consider banning Linux in India in response.
In case you weren't joking, one of the tenets of open source is no discrimination against groups of people. So it wouldn't really be open source if India were banned from using Linux.
VLC media player banned in India
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#132It is cute to see non-indians trying to guess the reason. We were like you once. It is an exercise in futility. Our government is run by monkeys. They are stubbornly uneducated about science and technology, at the same time pretending to know everything about it. How does our government take decisions? My best guess is they consult a successful team of astrologers.
> Our government is run by monkeys.
> My best guess is they consult a successful team of astrologers.
I feel great sympathy for you. From JPN.
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#133Re: VLC media player banned in India
#134The Indian government (and Indian courts) is infamous for these random harebrained stunts. In the past, it has banned archive.org [1], continues to block the French ISP free.fr, etc. VLC was likely banned because people use it to watch pirated films (the same reason free.fr continues to be banned [2]). And it's plain f*cking stupid to just ban videolan.org, because it can be downloaded from numerous other websites [3…
I can't wait until the Indian government tries to ban debian.org https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/vlc
I'm just waiting for them to ban breathing itself.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, that’d be great. The most likely reason it got banned is because of corruption. One reason for corruption is that politicians aren’t paid well. What smart competent sane person would rationally choose to be a politician? Maybe if it paid competitively. I wonder if there is a study on the ROI?
What a wild idea. Corporations and wealthy people are also corrupt. It turns out that it is a lack of morals. Or in many cases a complete dismissal of them for the pursuit of profit.
Most people's morals can be bought, it's just a matter of cost. Increasing salaries for government employees increases the barrier to entry for corruption.
Whether or not a typical state can actually afford it is a completely different issue altogether.
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#136President of VideoLAN here: we got banned since a few months, and we don’t know why. (According to my stats, it is since the 13 February 2022) . We’ve asked the Indian government and we got no answer. We probably did not ask the right place though. I wish I knew how to ask properly. The weirdest is that some ISP are blocking it and some are not. So why is that the case? Are some ISP not listening to the government? V…
Please watch my FOSDEM talk from 2020, it explains the similar effect in Russia: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/sdnpof/ The most likely explanation is: the government does not want to block your website, it is collateral damage. They want to block something else, but there is no technical possibility to block that without also blocking your website. This also explains variation between ISPs: there is…
The video wasn't loading for me there, here is the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6SwxXhZGv4
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#137President of VideoLAN here: we got banned since a few months, and we don’t know why. (According to my stats, it is since the 13 February 2022) . We’ve asked the Indian government and we got no answer. We probably did not ask the right place though. I wish I knew how to ask properly. The weirdest is that some ISP are blocking it and some are not. So why is that the case? Are some ISP not listening to the government? V…
Do you use Cloudflare? If yes, this could be the cause, but I'm not sure. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is unfortunate, sorry you had to go through that. The article made a claim that VLC is owned by a Chinese entity. That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. Is that the case?
> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
When the project got this large, I'd say it's safer to use an actual business address before too late than a private one as any weird people may target your parents' house for no good reason.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please watch my FOSDEM talk from 2020, it explains the similar effect in Russia: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/sdnpof/ The most likely explanation is: the government does not want to block your website, it is collateral damage. They want to block something else, but there is no technical possibility to block that without also blocking your website. This also explains variation between ISPs: there is…
The video wasn't loading for me there, here is the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6SwxXhZGv4
It wasn't loaded because the CDN that hosts it redirects from HTTPS to plain HTTP.
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#140President of VideoLAN here: we got banned since a few months, and we don’t know why. (According to my stats, it is since the 13 February 2022) . We’ve asked the Indian government and we got no answer. We probably did not ask the right place though. I wish I knew how to ask properly. The weirdest is that some ISP are blocking it and some are not. So why is that the case? Are some ISP not listening to the government? V…
Please watch my FOSDEM talk from 2020, it explains the similar effect in Russia: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/sdnpof/ The most likely explanation is: the government does not want to block your website, it is collateral damage. They want to block something else, but there is no technical possibility to block that without also blocking your website. This also explains variation between ISPs: there is…
I hold a Class B ISP license. We get letters (not emails, physical letters)from Department of Telecommunication asking us to block http://www.example.com
We don't bother with blocking http://example.com or its https cousin.
In this case we have not received any letter for VLC